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Trying to anticipate what AI will look like two model releases from now is a waste of time and a route to AI psychosis.
Drawn from what David Heinemeier Hansson said
What David Heinemeier Hansson actually said
- David Heinemeier Hansson Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Don't try to anticipate anything. You will literally go crazy. Because even the smartest brains in the business cannot anticipate what two model hops from here is going to look like. It's an absolute waste of time, and you will develop an AI psychosis trying to deduce what two years from now is gonna look like. Focus on right now, and right now is the most incredible time to be into computers.
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Build for the model six months from now, not the model of today.
Cherny builds deliberately for a model that does not exist yet and tells founders to do the same; Hansson says guessing two model releases ahead is a waste of time and sends you mad. Not a contradiction, and the gap between them is the interesting part: Cherny is betting that the next model will be BETTER without claiming to know how, while Hansson is attacking the attempt to predict WHAT it will be able to do. One can act on the first without doing the second — but the bet only pays if the guess about capability is roughly right, which is the thing Hansson says nobody can do.
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